Google announced yesterday a major step in their Google Analytics platform. The ability to simply ask it a question about your web site data and it comes back with a report. This feature is called Ask Analytics Intelligence.

All you have to do is go to the search box, type your question and Google should return the answer. Here is a GIF of it in action:

Here is a PNG file:

I personally do not see the feature yet, but it is rolling out over the next few weeks. Google wrote:

This feature, which uses the same natural language processing technology available across Google products like Android and Search, is rolling out now and will become available in English to all Google Analytics users over the next few weeks.

It should get smarter and better over time, Google says. Here is a video: